Also, Perhaps Children Are Sterner Than Grown-up

That Is Partly Why Women Marry - To Keep Up The Fiction Of Being In The Hub Of Things.

In 'real Life' Everything Is Diluted; In The Novel Everything Is Condensed.

Bring All Your Intelligence To Bear On Your Beginning.

Intimacies Between Women Often Go Backwards, Beginning In Revelations And Ending In Small Talk.

One's Sentiments -- Call Them That -- One's Fidelities Are So Instinctive That One Hardly Knows They Exist: Only When They Are Betrayed Or, Worse Still, When One Betrays Them Does One Realize Their Power.